A friend of mine linked me to this article about BCS ranking systems, and some of the silly rules imposed by the BCS.
My question: how exactly do they impose rules on the code if it's not public?
It seems here that margin-of-victory is not allowed at all by the BCS systems. I'm definitely not willing to go to that slim an amount of information... but perhaps I should feel more welcome to change my maximum-allowed margin (it is currently set to 14 points). Any suggestions? My first inclination is to go to 21.
The article brings up a lot of questions about the BCS system. I have the following opinions (which are perhaps not directly related to the article):
* The ranking system should not include voting by humans. Especially not those who have something obvious to lose/gain by the results!
* The ranking system should not take pre-season results into account, only results from the season.
* The ranking algorithm's code should be publicly available and unchangeable in the middle of the season.
I hope you enjoy the article!
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